We would want the solution to the safety problem before somebody figures out the solution to the AI problem.

The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website.

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

Human nature is a work in progress.

Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.

There are some problems that technology can't solve.

Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.